Protestant Reformers

event as the “Iliad of our time” due its long and climatic History. The Council’s Purpose as stated in the bull Laetre Jerusalem, was to “eliminate religious discord and to reform the Christian people.” However it is often discussed how much the Protestant concerns were ignored and overlooked in favor of making very little change in the Church of Rome. The Council ideally wished to negotiate with the Lutherans ‘charitably and respectfully and without hindrance… reproachful, vexations and…

helped to facilitate the spread of are still impacting the world currently. For instance, because of the printing press allowing its ideas to spread faster, the Protestant Reformation was very effective in breaking up the Church into a lot of smaller ones with slightly different beliefs (Butler). Today, many of the churches formed by reformers during that time, like the Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches, are still in existence today and Christianity is divided among them and no longer one giant…

in the 11th century, there was another split between Catholics and Protestants. A Protestant is any Christian that is neither Catholic nor Orthodox. This splitting occurred when a reformer known as Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in 1517. However, religious tolerance remained a controversial topic. In early modern Europe, most states had an established church supported by the ruler. However, partly as a result of the Protestant Reformation, many states had sizable religious minorities. While…

A protestant christian might argue that it was the responsibility of the slaveholder to convert their slave(s) to christianity. However, in a way christian slaveholders were using christianity to teach their slaves about obedience, compliance, and deference to white their masters.
 The shift in protestant-christian thoughts had a large impact on configuring white racial power because it made christianity…

The Baroque Period began around the 1600’s and lasted through to the mid 1700’s. The Baroque style of art and architecture started in Rome, Italy, and spread throughout Europe. At the time, there were disagreements between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholics. Baroque style architecture art was used to express power and control. Scientist made new discoveries in the Baroque period, the new discoveries influenced artists to paint based on the new knowledge, artists now better understood…

absolute authority of those clergy charged with interpreting and expounding the Scriptures to the masses. While Erasmus remained faithful to the Catholic Church, his developments regarding a return to the original sources formed a foundation for the reformers to build…

in the Protestant Reformation changed the course of both Christian and European history for the better. Unlike those of his time, Luther was rather forward thinking, and was willing to challenge the church in order to accomplish what he believed was right. His actions and ideas led to a great deal of disagreement, yet ultimately brought into question unjust action being taken by the church. The actions of Martin Luther were revolutionary for his time, and the starting of the Protestant…

Othello, by Sir William Shakespeare, is a play about a black moor, Othello, who marries Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator. This play contains various themes such as racism, love, betrayal, revenge, and gender. Shakespeare defies gender norms of the Renaissance by portraying Desdemona as a woman who does not conform to female expectations of the Renaissance. In this sense, the Renaissance ideals of femininity were submissiveness, piety, patience, silence, and chastity. This rebelliousness…

people began getting their hands on bibles,soon they were able to see the Church was not sticking to the word and they wanted change. As a result these groups of formers went off and created their own churches and so the protestants came to be.(Basic of Christianity) The Protestants were one of the first churches to break off from the roman catholic…

The Protestant Reformation The origin of religion can be traced back to the Ancient Near East. Religion itself is divided in three basic characteristics -monotheism, pantheism and polytheism. Thanks to these characteristics, many religions and different denominations appeared (“Origin of Religion”). Since around 330 C.E. monotheism was established as the dominant between them. The emergence of Catholicism and its monotheistic belief was supported by the Roman emperor Constantine I (Hunt…